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The Omaha Daily Bee. itaiilisiii:t) june isti. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY 5I(Hl"IN(i, MAHC1I IS, li03-TE PAGES. SINGLE COPY THIiEE CENTS. CANAL PACT PASSED terete Ends Long Debate y Notifying Protoool with Colombia ONLY riVE VOTE IN THE NEGATIVE Seventy-Three Mem ben Anwer Tea to filial Question Put. MANY AMENDMENTS ARE REJECTED Morpan Bunches Prnpoeali Itto Ocmp'ex Bubstitute. COMBINES 0: SIRED CHANGES AND TEXT Viva Tw TMvlslea Vleaalts la m X naatmoas Rejection an neat Goes Tknick. A1- WASHINGTON. March IT. The senate met at 11 o'clock today and went Into ex ecutive session after tbe Journal wee read and approved. Shortly after the floor were cloned Mr. Money offered a substitute lor the fourth article of the treaty, whlrb disavows any Intention on the part of the Vnlted States to Increase Its territory t the expense of South or Central America. This waa one of the two amendment on which the democrats agreed to art ai a unit. U Itrraiaitr All Anrrina. Scnstors Bacon, Teller. Daniel, Morgan. Ballcy and othera contended for an Impar tial recognition of all American republics, urging that under the languagt of the fourth article of the treaty Mexico would be left as the only American republic to which the avowal of non-encroachment could be held a non-applicable. Senators Spoonor and Hoar replied, contending that there was practically no difference between the language of the amendment and of the article. The amendment waa then defeated by 25 to 27. Senator ranll then offered an amend ment providing that the treaty should not take effect until It bad been approved by congress. The fact waa soon apparent that he offered his amendment for the purpose of making a general speech on tbe treaty, and when tbe fifteen minute allowed him had expired and tbe amendment was voted down, Senator Morgan presented four or five of hi amendment, which were each in turn defeated, but upon all of which Senator Daniol continued to speak. All told he spoke for about an hour. HI speech waa an arraignment of tbe re publican policy In pressing the treaty with what he asserted was undue haste. He re ferred to the enormous expenditure that would be required to construct the canal and charged recklessness In rushing into such an enterprise. Oary Hir'i Oaeklaa; W hip. Mr. Morgan asserted that senator were not HUnklng, -tot.. I luimai jyia. but loUn 'ng blindly 1n the leaf! f the secretary of state. They were practically surrendering their own offices In order to maintain a reputa tion for party allegiance. Senator Tlatt Conn.) was one of the very few to announce his entire satisfaction with the treaty. He referred to the fact that a number of republican senator had , said that If they had had the making of the treaty they would have changed aome of ita I features and declared that he considered It the best that oould have been made. I When, at 4;85, it became apparent that 'he fifteen-minute speeches had been con cluded, Becator Morgan surprised the sen ate by presenting all the fifty amendment which be had prepared In one block, with those portion of the treaty he did not de sire to change, aa a substitute for the whole agreement. He did not demand a roll call and was voted down viva voce al most unanimously. It was now a few minute past 5 and Senator Morgan took tbe floor to make the last of hi long series of speeches in oppo sition to tbe treaty. In accordance with lbs unanimous agreement he spoke for an hour, and to make the point he desired he had prepared hi speech in advance. He read deliberately but lc a firm voice, often digressing In order to emphasize a point. He stopped short at the expiration of his allotted time, whereupon Senator Cullom, chairman of the committee on for eign relation, took the floor. He also read his speech from manuscript, present ing a carefully prepared aud businesslike summary of the reasons for ratifying the treaty and for constructing the canal. Senator Cullom occupied only about three quarters of the hour allotted to him, and when be concluded tbe question a to whether the treaty should lie ratified we promptly put before tbe senate. All tbe senator In the city occupied tbelr seat and all were prompt In responding when their name were called. The vote resulted ! the ratification of tbe treaty by 73 to 6. The report was no surprise, for all had predicted that when the offered amendment had been disposed of tbe treaty would be approved by an overwhelming majority. Buch proved to I be the case. Tt.. .n ti t.a r.rnn-A-A - before a single voice was beard In the nega- ! TOP icring or a tax or t cents tor nve tlve. but then Senator Daniel (Va ) spoke y t0 "rate a fund of 4.000.0HO to be the fateful "nay." aud after another long u"'3 ln th erection of a new capltol build lapse be waa joined by his colleague, Sen- ' ator Martin. After them came the two i . 7 Alabama senators, Messrs. Morgan and Pet tua. and Sotiator Teller of Colorado. When Senator Frye announced the result there waa no demonstration, and by 7 the senate had adjourned for the day. Before thla, however, it had been decided j to meet again tomorrow at 11 to take up I the Cuban treaty, with the hope of con- j ( ludiuf it consideration and finally ad- ! juurmng by night. Hiatory af the Trratr. The Panama treaty ratified tody was signed at V. sahlngion on January 22. It was negotiated by Secretary Hay for the Vnlted States and Thomas Herran, charge d affaires for Colombia. Ou January SI it was sent to tbe presi dent and by him to the, senate on the eame date. It was referred to the committee on foreign relations on the same day and re ported back on February . Tbe treaty was discussed at some length during the last cougreaa. On March t. the- day the special session convened, it was again referred te tbe com mittee on foreign relation, and on March k again reported to the aenate, alnce which time it haa beeu under diacuaaion. Neither lit committee nor by the senate was tha treaty amended, heme ratified aa first ne? gollalud. juksMia ta hrsaUsir4. CLEVELAND O., March 17. Tom L. Johnaua waa renominated tor mayor by ac ':lauaitua at th deniocratlo city conven tion, tod. !ERITA,N r"i-FCR mDE Hif of Commons Dfbatn R r eola tion (irdrrlni la veatlcatloa lata lMlkt (omnfrrf. LONDON, Mar"i 17 In the House of Commons tonis' tiarles MtArthur, lib eral unionist, vv t resolution declar ing that the recV. . uVirmrcti In the commercial policic t?, lf,ea countries leading to the exclunliN.,, y'rlsb trade where it was previously Sy 1 called for the serious consideration. jrov ernroent. In order to safeguard de of the empire. He referred particularly to the vJtect of the Cuban reciprocity treaty and urged thnl nuriol t ta v Ha tnfl.(1 nn foniintleri ships visiting British ports and that closer commercial relations be established with the colonies. Evelyn Cecil, conservative, In seconding the resolution, advocated the appointment of a specll commission to watch foreign pnmnntllinfl TVtA rrHfl II t I nil t'RI lieln de- bated when the bouse rose for want of quorum. KING HAS THE LAST WORD Basoa Monarch C aata Another FUn at Prineeaa la Letter ta the People. DRESDEN, .March 17. The king of Sai ony has wTltten an open letter to his peo ple, thanking tbem for the proof of their sympathy with him In the "recent sad mis fortune" which hBd befallen himself anl family. Tbe king expresses the hope that the "perturbation and excitement which seised on a large portion of the population in quence of the disturbing events of ! winter." will now give place to i cons" last winter." will now give place m , ti i ancnuiippo J ne ,,iaKt" Bl ' 11 RBnur Trainmen, who had been enjoined from or quletude and the old feeling of confidence. P feet, a riee of 0.2 foot, while at New , 0(.rinp B gXTiit. naa nt in fact any power In conclusion be begs the people not to i Orleans the river is stationary at lf..2 feet- to ordpr B rfcr, a two-thirds vote of the believe those who aver that "behind all the Tbe Louleiana tributaries continue to I bplC(! requrd for such a step. mlserabH business is a tissue of falsehood and deception, but to believe the word of your king that this Infinitely painful aflair arose solely from the ungovernable passion of woman who had long before aecreily fallen." SAYS MISS ASTOR IS TO WED Tirana Paper Tie ports Ensaarement af Amrrleaa Danavhlrr to Ba- VIENNA, March 17. A dispatch froL Bucharest. Roumania. to the Die Zeltung ,Tg; Mjs Aator, daughter of William Waldorf Astor, la engaged to marry Jonet Bratlano, the Rc. tianian foreign minister. Mis Astor Is now visiting tbe Roumanian crown prince's family. Brntiano ha a fas cinating personality. K is not a wealthy man and 1 a son of the late Jean Iirntig.no, the distinguished statesman whose monu ment will shortly be unveiled at Bucharest. nwi.. i.r,n n.-si. rw. u... ... , town and nobody connoted with him tin ; u lue rrponeu "if.p u.. mi Astor. Die Zeltung of Vienna is not considered a newspaper of high authority. AMERICAN WAY TOO RAPID (rnaaa Fl tLm arter AaMHitr Panic, Die'' ta Absorption of Capital. BERLIN, March 17. Apprehension re garding tbe financial situation In New Torn are still oronounced. The American de- miin(j fo r;.,.,. monev continue. Tnt, impresBion prevails among Berlin nnBn,.lal n)Cn that speculation in the tnltod States has been overdone and that rrpdi,. have heen undulv exnanded. It is pointed out, as a sign of too rapid capital nbHori-tton, that It la now difficult for American bouses to dispose of flrst-claas bonds bearing Interest at 4 per cent. The same difficulty is experienced by German bank in handling American bondB. FAIR MONEY IN THE BUDGET Comnmlf ter of the Rrlrhataar Favors Ample Grraiaa ExhlkM at st. I -on I a. BERLIN. Marrh 17. The budget commit tee of the Reichstag today by 26 to 2 votes appropriated JiaO.OOO to defray the expenses of Germany's representation at the Bt. Louis exposition. Half of this amount will be available Im mediately. It is understood that next year' requests will be limited to 1750.000. The committee held a private meeting, but it was learned that Herr Liebenmann von Rlniinberg, radical anti-semite, wa one of the two negative voLera. WILL NOT MOVE THE CAPITA!; Mlaaonrl Heat af Government Remain at JesTeraoa City. la JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. March 17.-ln 1 ,;-M p"r. ...f Passenger earnings ln the bouse today the resolution to submit an ! 4"8''"' mT"r . 40 Tr cw'1 amendment to the constitution providing for the removal of the state capital from Jefferson City to Bt. Louis wa defeated by vote of sa to n. The house then, by a vote of 61 to 64. re- fused to pass another amendment providing Fireman Badly Injured la aa Acrl drat aa Hark lalaad, rar Jolirt. JOLIET. III.. March 17. Rock Island pas senger tn.ln No. 6 was wrecked at Rock dale, just below Jo'.iet. by collision with a freight train. I Fireman Connolly of Joliet wa badly ' hurt. The passengers were shaken up j some and some w ere rut and bruised, but none aeriously Injured. The accident waB , due to fog. i EARTH IN MONTANA SHAKES Tremors are Tloleat. bat ha Da mace la Caaaed by the Dlstarb. HELENA, Mont.. March 17. Violent earth ! tremors were again experienced at t 42 last ni(.ht. No actual damage resulted. Lbarer DaBBeraaalr Hart. FTT'RGIS. S. D-. March 17 (Special Tele gram ) Doiumic KePeler of this city had bis left leg broken In three places below the knee and right leg put out of joint lite tht afternoon at Fort Meade while at work tak ing down one of the old barracks. A lift y-e.ghl-foot wall fell on hUn. cauaing tbe ac cident. Had it not been for prompt action of soldier and others to raiae the wall ha would have been killed. WATER (OVERS RED DESERT Standi Afainst TJuon Pacifie Embank meet Twenty feet Beep. FLOODS TAKE HUMAN LIVES IN SOUTH Haadreda are arroaadrd la Tennes see. While riMtlag Bodies Tell Tale at Death and Dis aster to Othera. BOCK SPRINGS. Vyo.. March 17 The ' Red dessert Is inundated for miles east of Rork pPrln' Dfl bf alt lrpU dr""n station Is completely under water. Large quantities of supplies belonging to the I Belgo-American Drilling company have been ruined or swept sway. The water has backed ur against th" Vnlon Pacific embankment to a depth of m P'"-s The embankment no not yet neen cut. nut tnere is Ganger that this w ill occur and track walkers are kept constantly on tbe move over the threatened section. Mtaatlna at Memphis Crlttral. WASHINGTON. March 17 Special river bulletin: The river situation In the Mem phis district has become critical. The stage this morning Is 3B. a rise of .6 foot slnre Monday and 1.1 feet above the bight water stage of 1RCR. t'nofficlal reports of the brnaking of levees north of Memphis have been re-teived. Th"e breaks, 1? extensive, will doubtless modify the conditions somewhat. Never theless, a further rise to forty feet may be expected at Memphis within the next thirty-six hours. Below Helena the sltua- j ti ' unchanged The stage at Vlcksburg j rise, tne bnrevepori gauge recoraing ai.v feet this morning. Tbe Ohio Is falling ex cept at Cairo, where tbe decline will prob ably bgln today. Wp.teri Take Lives. MEMPHIS, Tenn.. March 17 The flood situation in the Mississippi valley contigu ous to Memphis 1b extremely critical to night and reports of loss of life are at hand. The break made In the levees has complicated conditions by flooding a vast area and tonight a veritable sea exists In the St. Francis and Mississippi basins, ex tending from one to the other, a distance of many miles. Many persons are surrounded In their . homes and on high lands, but thus far It l has been impossible to send them assist ance. A few floating bodies have been found at various points by the rescuing boats, but the number has not yet become alarming. Marion is almost totally flooded and citi zen are using ski's a their only means of travel. Negroes and white persons from thfl 8(,Ja(.pnt trrrilorv are pouring In every hour Bklnp lhet b(Bt Dc Bpnt to reBCU( their families. There is nn me.ns nf renrh- ing them except by making a break In tbe levee near Memphis, and this may be done tomorrow ir conditions show no Improve ment. It is estimated that several hundred peo ple are surrounded In tbe floe-Oiid .Arkansas territory and 1t seems that It Will be im perative to send a steamboat to their eld. Negroes at Marion have given way to panic and refuse to work. A relief train, the last that reached the village., arrived early this morning with S.000 sacks to lie used in damming back tbe water, but labor cannot be secured to unload It. The river 1b again riBlng tonight. Floods Re-enter Rivers. NATCHEZ. MiB.. March 17. Report from Bougere. La., tonight Bay the break In the Texas & Pacific embankment is now more than three miles long. The water Is j filling the swamp and flooding the lower section of Concordia parish across to Black river. This water will make Its way to the Red river and back again Into the Mis sissippi. The river here wa stationary yesterday. but rose iwo-tenthB in the last twenty-four hours. NEW ORLEANS. March 17-The flood situation show no material change In the lower Mississippi beyond a Blow continued ,i .v.- t-.,.. , w . . u luv iiTx-i. j i itt uiivft io m.ies oe- i low Bohemia is of no Importance. It Is now 250 feet wide and about four feet deep. The water is running back into the gulf. i now 250 feet wide and about four feet deep OMAHA ROAD IS BOOMING Esrai f 71 1,121 More Thaa Laat Vrar, Whllr Psurnger Baataraa Jamps rhr nomrnally. I I The meeting was lc tbe office of Tresi- ST. PAVL. Minn.. March 17. The gross j 0PDt Jonn M Hall HU& iUHted three hours, earnings of the Chicago. St. Paul, Minne-I An executive session of tKc grievance com epolis 6 Omaha road for 1902. as shown I m,.,BH .... ,hpr. h,,id. by the annual report issued today, " j lll.W7.E2fj, an increase of 1711.121; ci were 'P"1"01- tng expenses and taxes. 17.483.254; net earn- ings, n.t.i.z.i. ine ratio or operating ex- penaes and taxes to gross earnings wa I F.J mci JJIJJI1 LJJV UlLrCBBC 111 lTClgUl eaiU- lugs. . iWOOL FREIGHT RATE BOOSTED eetera I.lnea 1 nlte with Crawrri Opposing Enatrra Tariff. CHICAGO. March 17. Wool growers and ! KANSAS CITY, March 17. After ar WKCern railroads are proiesui-g at the a'.'- j puuientb lusting more than eight hours, tion of eastern lines In raising the rates on i the striking teamsters and transfer com- wool 15 per cent from Chicago to th sea bcr.rd. The western lines object because they have to further raise their portion of the rate to abeort the difference. Eastern lines Insist that wool bore an mircmunerame rate and that tbe proportion given them ! from St. Louis and Chicago was too email. I a'CCKIE PDfil FYTFrVTi I ICC 1 tm c-tiBM Operatioa I atll ! Acrreea j heat hern PaelSe Meeting Is Over. NEW YORK. Marrh 17 It was officially announced today that a majority of the Southern Pacific pool had agreed to con tinue the pool till April 10. Thl will carry the pool over the annual meeting on April 8. TALKING WIRES TO GO UP j Illlaoia aad ladlaaa Telephoae aad i Telegraph Company Formed with Twa MI'lloa Capital. TREVTON, N. J.. March 17 Tbe Illinois I- Indiana Telephone and Telegraph com- pany, capital 12. not' .mm, to construct and operate telephone and telegraph liuua, was laoorporatsd her today. WABASH CAS IS OPENED Arguments Drgla far IMeeolattoa af the In inaction Forbidding; a strike. FT. LOVIS. Mo., March 17 Arguments were begun this morning In the t'nlted Plates district court before Judge Elmer B. Adams upon the melon of the defend ants to dissolve the temporary Injunction Issued two veckf ago by Judge Adams, re straining the officials of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen did the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemom from ordering a strike of the members of those rrganlra- tionB employed by the Wabash railroad. I AH the prominent officials of both labor orpanizations acre present and both aides to the controversy were represented by a strong array of Iraal counsel. The proceedings opened by the reading i by E. J. Tinner of Cleveland, attorney for the brotherhood, of a number of affidavit filed by officials of the labor organization in rebuttal of affidavits filed last Saturday ly the attorneys of the Wabash system. These affidavits were made by P. H. Mor rlssey. grand master of the truinmen; J. J. Hanniban. grand master of tbe firemen, and nine others, all being cither officers of or affiliated with the tare labor organizations. They all stated In e-ffect that no persua sion or argument had been used te induce the men to strike, bnt that, on the con trary, each man had pressed his desire In dependently and without dictation from any source. It was abut sworn that no force or coercion was contemplated In brtnelng about a strike of the Wabash em ployes. Several of the affidavits were of I great length and their reading consumed much time. Grand Master Morrianey, in his affidavit, swore that be as an officer, and others as offi,.erp of the Trainm,,n who he Brotherhood of Railway As an officer he could do no more than ' announce the result of the vote taken, and It was ihen for tbe members of the organ ization to tBke steps in accordance with the action favored by the majority of the men. After recess the rending of affidavits was resumed and continusd during a greater part of the afternoon.' COLORADO STRIKE EXTENDS talon (alia Oat Mem T2innlod Kiln. Insr Ore hirrd ta X ailed St at re RodDotloa Warka. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo.. March 17. The executive committee of the Western Fed eration of Miners this afternoon declared a strike against all mines shipping ore to the Vniteii Reduction and Refining company. DENVER, March 17. President Charles Moyer and Sncretary William D. Haywood, of the Western Federation of Miner, lii sued a etatement today In which they eharge Governor Peabody with violating the agreement made at the conference In his office on Sunday In regard to with drawing troops from Colorado City. The federation offi.ier declare that the governor promised j 'that be would Im mediately withdraw! the troop providing that the federation) would withdraw all suits against, the ttHk ffj . of. the . tate militia." s- Thl proposition, they Bay, they accepted and they add that "the governor ha vio lated every syllable and letter o' his agree ment by sending his private eecretary to Colorado City to make a personal investi gation and report. "The action of the governor has shown him to be weak and vacillating, and that he 1b a man who ha no conception of tbe dignity of his office." They deny thai they agreed that there should be no strike of the Cripple Creek ; mlrierB UIlleHg lnr trouble at the Standard I : n . ...... 1 n H In ...... m ii n . 1.111 rm rit 1 he I ill 1 . id nun pr.uFu. - . ....... v-.. ..... -- ' . . ,.. . .. ... wood said the Western Federation would J resume the prosecution of the suit against the militia officers now on duty and that other suits would be instituted. Governor Feabody tonight recalled the ; troops from Colorado City. DCI ICVF DISPUTE IS ENDED j DtUtVt UliriHt Id tlMUC-U ; , ,, r t Havra Blra Hold Joint Coafrr- rare Bonad ta stave OW Mrlke. NEW HAVEN. Conn.. March 17. Marked progress was made today In the confer ence between tbe joint grievance commit tee representing employes of tbe New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad comnanv. and a committee appointed by the board of directors. committee of the directors will re- I nnn hack to the board such facts aa they ,lUlini)d Bnd ,hp matter will be left to the further direction of the board which will meet at an early date. Among the men there Is a quiet feeling of confidence, and they are greatly en-oou-aged by the outcome of the day's con ference. TEAMSTERS PROVE VICTORS Force Kaaaaa City Traaafrr font pa nics ta Reragalsr I alea aad Graat Other Ooneraelone. panteg reached an agreement tonight and tomorrrw every transfer wagon In the city J will be running as usual. Th" transfer j companies agreed to recognize the union and made other concession which amount i to almost a complete victory for . strikers ibe KNS.P CITY. Man b 17 The linemen ln Kansas itv of the Missouri KanBas Telephone company, numbering about 100, 1 struck today. Toe Postal Telegraph com ' 'any framed the deumnds of Its men. while i the western i rtion ana ine nectrip lignt- Ing companies are still conniclering them. UNITE AGAINST BOYCOTT Malrrbory Cliisrna Comklae to Freak Foree of htrlkera' 1 eaaon. WATEKBCRY. Conn.. March 17 Colonel Burpee tonight said he had no authority to aettle the street car strike sod that no one except the directors of the company rould do that. The semi-secret Injunction o business i men and other citizens against the boycott Instituted by strike sympathizers now has operators of bituminous district No. t ub 3(i4j members and another stnil'.ar organ:za- ; mined their ultimatum to the miner Hon, composed principally of wage earners, i today. It wa briefly an c-fler of an In- i has a nienil rsh'p of 1,000 A mass meet- I lug Is to be held tomorrow ntgbt at which. It Is expected, steps will be taken ts cuu- j aoUdaie la twe nrgakUaUoua. TARE ISSUE WITH RICHARDS 'Wyoming Republicans Eepud.aU Senti mentt Attributed to Oovernoi. MERCER FAILS TO LAND CENSUS PLACE Maaaaekaaetta Winn. Wba Haa Hera Chief of ptvialoa la C ensus Of ftre, Tendered aad Acrenta the Flare. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 17 (Special Tel. gram.) Nearly every republican of prom inence In Wyoming has repudiated the a" ruracy of the statement In a recent In terview of Governor Richards of that state criticizing the position of President Roose- ! velt In the matter of a forest reserve and threatening an opposition delegation from the state to the next republican national convention. Both Wyoming senator have given the president assurance that the re publicans of the state are overwhelmingly tnf Hltn Inr tho rani till ti irtTi t n t infi for pres.dent. Representative Mondell ha. done likewise and now come the repudio tlon of the views of Governor Richardi Senator Clark called on the president todav ' and read him some extracts froo a letter he had received from George E. Pexton. republican national committeeman of that slate. In one place in the letter Mr. Pex ton says: "It would be lust as easy to bottle a March blizzard on the Laramie i plains as to prevent sending a Roosevelt J delegation from this state to our next na tion convent ion." Mercer la Tnrned Dosi, The president ha tendered the position of director of the census to K. N. D. North, formerly chief statistician of manufacture j of the census bureau, to succeed Director Merriam, resigned. Mr. North has accepted and will enter upon his duties some time in May. Mr. North is a native o! New York and a resident of Massachusetts. The new director of the census is a news paper man by profession, having been a member of the t'tlca (N. Y.I Herald staff from 1869 to 188(1. He was appointed a member of the Vnlted States Industrial commission by President McKinley in 1RS1, but resigned In 1899 to accept tbe position of chler statistician for manufacture. He will give up thl poBttlon to become direc tor of the census. Routine of Irpartnrata. These Iowa rural free delivery letter car rier were appointed today: Birmingham, J. M. Byers, regular; Elger WlnBlow, sub stitute. Maquoketa. Albert B. Hnylock, regular; Mr. Haylock, substitute. Schal ler, Fred Gilbert, regular; T, H. Gilbert, substitute. The postofflce at Pllotburg, Washington county, la., has been discontinued. Merrttt Carey of Neligh, Neb., was today appointed assistant biologist In tbe Agri cultural department at a salary of $1,200. The Postoffice department today accepted the proposition of S. S. Rnst of Oakland. la., to furnish quarters for the Dostoffice at that place; also authorised the change of tue posiomce at Kiuibaaia, a. D., te the premises owned by George A. Merrltt- Reeerva Agents approved: National City bank of New York,, for Farmers' National of Primghar, la.; Tootle-Lemon National of St. Joseph. Mo., for City National of David City, Neb.; Corn Exchange National of Chicago, for First National of Elommt, la The corporate existence of the First Na tional bank of Watertown, S. D., has been extended until tbe close of business, March 17. 1P23. George H. Johnson of Omaha was today appointed messenger in the weather bureau office at Omaha. These additioual Iowa rural free delivery route will be established April 1: Promise t, ,.,,,..-.. ered, seventeen square miles population, one route; population, 450. Weldon, Decatur county, area, twenty-one square miles; 481. SONS OF ERIN CELEBRATE Redmond CI a 1 m a Brighter Dawns for Irrland Thaa Ever Before. Day BALTIMORE. March 17. Cardinal Gib bons was one of the guest of honor touiglit at the annual banquet of tee Ancient Order of Hibernians, given in honor of St. Pat rick. Hie eminence spoke briefly of the day and v.hut it meant to Irishmen and referred feelingly to the Order of Hibernians. LONDON. March 17. John Redmond pre sided over the St. Patrick' day banquet given tonight at the Hotel Cecil, at which 700 personm sat down. The Vnited Irish League of America sent a cablegram of greeting. John Redmond, proposing the toast of "Ireland a Nation," said the aspirations of Irishmen were not ignoble dreams of gain or vengeance. The political movement waa never fuller of hope and triumph than at the present moment, but they could not forget that certain Irish memberu, of Parliament had since last St. Patrick's day banquet suOered in English prison. They might also congratulate themselves on the beginning of a great educational and In dustrial revival ln Ireland, which would enable it to compete with the foreigner. WANTS ANOTHER TEA PARTY Maaaaehaaetta Goveraor Deaaaaeea Fleetloa Fraada at Boatoa'a An neal Patriotic Gathering. BOSTON, March 17 During the annual celebration of the evacuation of Boston I Governor Bates precipitated a mild sen- 1 aa'lon. In the midst of an eloquent de 1 scription of the greatness of the country without warning he denounced the alleged ejection frauda recently in thiB city "a;a- When we bear the charges made in re gard to tbe attempt to Invade the tanr- j t!I' of the American ballot box It Is time " ...iw uiniri uuu nir; rq ' in Boston, to mount the gun and to drive ' into tbe sea those who would make such u( kB it': itose who steal the right j of tbe American citizen, who would buy ' elect, on those who would seek their own Luc ",r"" j public welfare.' MINERS REJECT COMPRCMISE Refaar ta Consider Crr Made ta Then by Bltamlaoos Operators. ALTOONA. Fa.. Marrh 17 The coal rresse of l;1 per rent for r'k mining. 14 ! per cent for machine mining and a cine b"i'.r day at 12.70 per day for driver j The miners promptly rejected th eflar. CONDITION OF THE WEATHER F'.-ecaet for Netiniska-Rsln and Colder Wednesday; Thursday Fair Temperatare et Omaha yeoterdayt Hair, Drt. Hour. Ie. S t. 41 1 p. MB TO I a. m Alt k a. m 71 j T a. m 42 K p. m 73 I at a. in 44 4 p. tn " u n. ta 4t ft . tu 7a lit a. to HX p. m T. 11 a. m m T p m ' lit ra tin a. p. m Hi 1 p. ni M " i AFFAIRS OF KING AK-SAR-BEN i I Board of Governors I'la Dates for i t arntval and art Pr-loe for Musical reatlval. The Ak-Sar-Ben carnival of 1H03 will Sat- j open Thursday. October 1, and dose I urday. October 10, with the punide prnb ; rbly for Thursday night. October K aud the 1 ball for Friday night. Octob-r Ji. I Tbe determination of thip was one of j the Important actions of tne board of gov ernors of the Knights or Ak-Sar-Ben at """' U " ,hr mBh" r,ul' ! i night. ", ' .. ' " " ceneral way and an informal oath in a lnkpn lhB "hould be made to discount J "f " P""--" looping big j lucent. ! Another matter on w hich the board took 1 I action and In which there has come to be a great deal of enthusiuBtic public In- 'erest was the May festival of music to be I Bt lhe Ak-Sar-Ben den. The hoard bundled that delicate feature, finance, and decided to put the prices down where eve,-yone ran reach without straining either the purae strings or the principle af economy A season ticket Is to cost but $3.i0, and may be obtained at H J. Penfold s store, :4(,g jrurnBIn. on or after Monday, March a This ticket entitles tbe bcurer to a reserved seat at Hot onlv the ncrformance of May 7, 8 and P. but tbe special concert of May 15. A has been announced, on the three earlier dates the splendid Chicago Symphony orcbesira and chorus of 10 spe cially trained voices will be beard each evening and two afternoons. The dates fall upon a Thursday. Friday and Sai ur day. One week later on Friday, the lf.th. come Nordlca and DeRezke In concert, with the full metropolitan opera house or chestra. One of the Ak-Sar-Ren governors said last night: "If the rublic gets to fe.!lng as enthusiastic over this May festival as we are the venerable den will see some great audience. And there Is every rea son why tbe public should enthuse for it will be a musical offering absolutely unique In Omaha and something we will have occasion to look back to with pleas ure for long time to come. And think of the price! We put it down to the lowest notch possible. If all those offerings, practically six complete and varied enter tainments, for t3.M isn't a bargain 1 don't know what is. Why, the Nordica-DeRezke concert alone would rorma"y bring nearly what it costs to hear the entire festival course." -" 'QECRGE L MILLER MARRIED Weddlas Ceremony Takes Finer at - Arbor Ioa;e ta e tar a ska . City. Dr. George L. Miller and Miss Frances Brigg. both of Omaha, were married ln Nebraska City yesterday. If this announcement of so felicitous an event seem blunt and without proper prep aration let the responsibility be laid upon the doctor's own shoulders, for bo quietly did be and his bride-to-be make tbetr ar rangements that even the people neighbor ing with them at the Normandie apartment house, Park avenue and Pacific street, did not know what wbb to occur until yester day morning, and tbe newspapers did not know until their Nebraska City correspond ents began sending ln reports of tbe wed ding last evening. The ceremony wa performed by Bishop Arthur L. William yesterday afternoon at Arbor Lodge, a place very dear to the dor tor by reaBon of Its having been the home and practically the creation of hlr very close friend, tbe late J. Sterling Morton, whose sister, Mis Emma Morton, still retain it and gave an elaborate dinner there after the ceremony yesterday after noon ln compliment to tbe doctor and his bride. At 6:25 ln the evening the two left J Nebraska City to go to Chicago for one week, after which they will be at home to friends at the Normandie, which has been tbe borne of both for aome months. Announcement of tbe marriage will be read with Interest and with a responsive feeling of congratulation and felicitation ln many quarters of Nebraska and beyond the state lines because of tbe doctor very wide circle of friends, many of whom date back to tbe days when he waa active aul prominent ln Nebraska journalism. Hi bride has a very wide acquaintance ln I Omaha, where bhe ha. been resident many years, most of which she has devoted to school work, but a few of which she spent at the doctor's old home, Seymour I'ark, since burned, as the close companion of tbe former Mr. Miller, an Invalid. More re cently Miss Brigg ha been teaching at tbe Cass school. AMES BACK IN MINNEAPOLIS Former Mayor ta 111 Plead Insanity aa Caeae for His Mis deeds. MINNEAFOLIB. March 17. Dr. A. A. Ames, ln custody of Sheriff Dreger, reached Minneapolis today from New Hampshire He will be arraigned tomorrow. Ames' defense, according to hi leadinc counsel, will be Insanity. His paternal grandfather Is said to have been insane i Ames no has a brother in one of the ! state hospitals for the insane. He Quarter have lieen fitted up for Ames ' yarded i.s railroad men tnd four antl-rall-ln the city hospital, where it has been i read nu n. O-her corporations as well I planned to hold him as a prisoner pend- ! ing trial The court is not likely to at j cede to this, as the city Jail is commo- i'iui uu uisieuu. 'Movements of Oeeaa t eaaela Marrh IT. At New York Arrived Vaaderland. from 1 Antwerp: Mesabe. from London hailed Slcilia. for Cienoa and Naples: Karamiinia, for Marseilles, Trojan Prince, Jor Genoa and Leptiorn At t;ro bead f'assea Knvr.lann. rrorn ! W L.H.. 1..1..L I... 1 4 . ..v... .1 Hl.iii.Iii fr.iin ) Boston, lor gueenstown and Liv. rpool menu alriuuy publiahed, wa one of tbe At (.'ueenstown Arrived Oceanic . from it.u tiilla paed by the house today. New York for Liverpool, and proceeded I At Sydney. N S. AV Arrived Hierra. I ammera Before Committee. from nan Francisco, via Hon. .lulu and AucklaiiQ The Btrlley investigation committee held At Bremer. Arrived Kaiser Wlthelm der i , Dri( f b naion during the noon recess lo- Ci,eruotirg0m N Y"r"' VU r'n'"'nh ",J day. examining Vnlted State. District At At Plymouth Arrived pentirylvatila. j lorncy W. F Summers of Omaha. Mr. from New lnrli for t liertiourg and Hum- tinta and iiroeeeU.a At Leghorn Arrived Perufflu. from New York via Naples etc. At Liverpool rlaiieu t'iioiua for Boston. At Antwerp Arrived Zeelund. tr"tn New York At Manchester Sailed Caledonian, for BoMon. At Liiaaguw AJTlvad Coroan, from Bua- BUSY TIME ft HOUSE In C.-nnmittee of tbe Whole Last Paragraph of Ecrenuc Bill it Leached. SWEEZY AMENDMENT YET TO DISPOSE OF Tanners' Elevator Bill and Omaha Chirtei Also Passed br the House, BAFTLEY COMMITTEE HEARS SUMMERS Denies, any Lncw'edre of the Loaning of rndB by Ex-Treaiurei. TALKS WITH SAVAGE ABOUT PARDON Committer Pats Pointed Quest Ion on This Toplr aad He Dralea Aivararr at l.lhrratlna Prisoner. REVEVVE FILL nearly completed In eom- m.tiee nt the wh..ie f tu- hr,,.. t pKragraph Is reacheu. hot Hwtuy amend T m passes th, houHr OM AHA CHARTER amendments passed toy tldUHf- BAHTLty invcstlea tlnit comm iter bvars liilted Hiates Attorticj tiummers. who uiuit'T fin. K in1 in null uni n'v r.i nrcloti. ' h 1 I LKKH Invest icatlnc committee ready to proceed with It work (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. March 17. (.Special Telegram.) St. Patrick day was a busy one for the legislature, especially ln the house Py convening st 10 a. m. and adjourning at 10:20 p. m. It passed ten bills, reached the last section, 244, in iu eoiislderation of the revenue bill, amended and recommended for paBBuge the Kamscy elevator bill, secured the appointment of a sifting committee, a chairman to tbe Stuefer Investigating com mittee and raced through a huge pile of less Important routine. Although the shamrock was thoroughly ln evidence ln the house that body "held Its fierce career and paused not" like tbe senate to pay for mal tribute to the patron saint of tha emerald lle. The upper branch devoted some time to speeches on St. Patrick and his posterity and even drafted reBolutloua to King Edward, which were cabled later, felicitating his majesty upon tbe progrea wrought in the conditions of Ireland a a result of his official acta. While, as has been said, the house at last ploughed it way through the revenue bill. It dd not conclude consideration of that measure. It will be taken up again ln committee of the whole w4ien more amendments are to be offered. Tbe fight on tbe railroad taxation q-iestlon is still pending. Sweezy's amendment wa not disposed of tonight, ac wa expected, but 1 to come up today. Loom i a will then submit a few amendmenta, as will also Spurlock, to other sections. A number ot members fell on Sweezy tonight with con siderable force lo Induce him to submit his proposition on jts merit without fur ther discussion, but the "gentleman from Adam still has the floor." There Is little If any possibility of .his amendment, modification of the Caldwell amendment, passing. blseovers a Smooth hrheme. Almost at the eleventh hour it la dis covered that the electric light companies have succeeded ln bending tbe revenue hill toward their exchequer. By some Blelght of hand performance they slipped Into tbe bill a provlBiou giving tbem the benefit of the gross earning franchise tax, which Is accorded to telephone, telegraph, express G!iQ pipe line comjianles. The electric concerns hoped to get in as pipe line com panies in section 80 of the bill. Their scheme wa to pan off their conduits as pipe llnea. They stole the march with Buch subtle skill as to deceive even mem bers of the house w ho had been looking for some such play, but tbelr game has been discovered and Thompson of Merrick will tomorrow offer an amendment pro viding that this section shall not apply to electric light concerna. All tbe publit utility corporations held out thl gross earnings franchise tax sop to the legisla ture as a "good thing" and a is indicated some of these concerns have been suc cessful. The street railways were about to get ln under this method but at the last moment were defeated. It is more than probable that had the discovery not been made tonight the street railway, the gs, waterworks and all the rest of these utility corporations would have stormed the bouse with a battering ram to force their way in behind the elec tric companies. The chance now are two to one all these concerns will be defeated ln this move. Exposing these subtle tac tics will serve to illustrate the fallacy and deceit of tbe argument advanced by cer tain of these corporations that to tax their gross earnings a franchise, aside from their tangible property would tend to in crease rather than decrease their aggre gate taxea. It will serve to substantiate the assertion, baaed on honest Investiga tion, that to tbe Omaha street railway alone this method of taxation in a single year would mean a net saving of about $22,000 ln taxes. Mfttnc Committee wins. The oppoeltion to the appointment by tbe speaker of a sifting committee wa no longer at.le lo "Btem the tide" and the speaker named thirteen members to take (barge of this important work. However tbe motion calling for the committee wss considered fair in that It provided that the committee's power would not become absolute until the fifty-fifth day. The com mittee is composed of nine men who. I Judged by their allegiance to matters af- 'fecung trie railroads' Interests, are re- have good frieuds on the committee. Now that tht speaker has at last found somebody who will sccept the thalrn.au khtp of the Stuefer investigation com mittee, McAllister of Deuel, that board of Inquiry, not to be ouidoue by the Hartley inquisitors, proposes to get up with the larks every morning and "pull off" a few investigations before work time. It starts out at 8 .n tbe morning. The Omaha charter bill with the amend- i Cummers declared be hud no knowledge ! nf t be cigar box, the plundered funds or to whom they were loaned. He also slated : that he had not been ln collusion with Parilry or anyone else at any stage of this mysterious proceeding by which tbe state s ! money was placed beyoud easy recovery land had had no pari is securing Bartleya 1
